The former Atalanta Stefano Colantuono. LaPresse
In a press release issued at 8:50 this morning on the club’s website, Atalanta announced that they had “exonerated” the coach Stefano Colantuono will be replaced by Edy Reja. “The company – the statement said – expresses its deep appreciation and gratitude to Colantuono qualified by virtue of work done over the past five years.” Fatal home defeat against Sampdoria. Atalanta is fourth in the standings with 23 points, three more than the third-last Cagliari. In 25 league games, the Nerazzurri have totaled five wins, 9 draws and 11 defeats. Four consecutive knockouts (Fiorentina, Inter, Juventus and Sampdoria) that cost way to Colantuono.
Edward “Edy” Reja, class 1945. Ansa
two masterpieces – Goriziano born in 1945, Edy Reja, after a decent career as a player (he played as a midfielder) lived between Spal, Palermo and Alexandria, started career coach in 1979. Moline, Ponselice, Pordenone, Gorizia Pro, Treviso, Mestre and Varese before arriving, in 1987, in Serie B with Pescara. Four promotions conquered by Capello in Serie A: the first with Brescia in 1997, the second with Vicenza in 2000, the third at the helm of Cagliari in 2004 and the fourth with Napoli in 2007. In the season 1991/1992 Reja Cosenza has also touched with the promotion to the top, just vanished the last day of the season to the “Via del Mare” of Lecce. Another promotion touched, in the ’97 -98 season, to Turin, where he had arrived at the tournament in progress. After the successful experience of Cagliari, in 2005 the landing in Naples instead of Giampiero Ventura: he is the first coach of the new Naples run by Aurelio De Laurentiis. Reja has managed to lead the team from the C to the Uefa Cup. In the 2008/2009 season, after 9 games where Napoli picked up just two points, Reja was sacked – after 4 years and 188 benches in the league and cups – and replaced with Roberto Donadoni. In August 2009, the passage Hajduk Split, then the return in Italy in February 2010 called from Lazio to replace Ballardini. The technician goriziano led the Biancocelesti to salvation, by touching the following season access to the Champions League, finishing in fifth place.
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